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2014 Retirement Research Consortium Meeting

The 2014 RRC Meeting was held on August 7-8, 2014 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Welcoming remarks: Katherine Thornton (Deputy Chief of Staff, SSA)

Panel 1: Social Security Provisions

The Social Security Earnings Test and Retirement: New Evidence from Behavior Near the Exempt AmountAlexander Gelber, University of California, Berkeley, Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER, and Daniel W. Sacks, Indiana UniversitySummarySlides

The Implications of Differential Trends in Mortality for Social Security PolicyJohn Bound and Arline Geronimus, University of Michigan, Timothy A. Waidmann, Urban Institute, and Javier Rodriquez, University of MichiganSummaryPaperSlides

The Psychology of SSA Claiming Decisions: Toward the Understanding and Design of InterventionsSuzanne B. Shu, University of California, Los Angeles and John W. Payne and Namika Sagara, Duke UniversitySummaryPaperSlides

Procrastination, Present-Biased Preferences, and Financial BehaviorsJeffrey R. Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Alessandro Previtero, University of Western OntarioSummaryPaperSlides

Is Working Longer Good for You? A Simultaneous Equations ApproachRaquel Fonseca, Université du Québec à Montréal and Arie Kapteyn, Jinkook Lee, and Gema Zamarro, University of Southern CaliforniaSummaryPaperSlides

How Do Public Pensions Affect Retirement Incomes and Expenditures? Evidence over Five Decades from CanadaKevin Milligan, University of British Columbia and David A. Wise, National Bureau of Economic ResearchSummaryPaperSlides

How Does Raising Women’s Full Retirement Age Affect Labor Supply, Income, and Mortality? Evidence from SwitzerlandRafael Lalive, University of Lausanne and Stefan Staubli, University of CalgarySummaryPaperSlides